Christy O'Connor: The Kerry jersey is weighted mercilessly against history 

Kerry players keenly appreciate that the context of greatness is subjective in their county.

Every jersey handed down, especially a successful one, is like a badge of honour passed on from player to player like a family heirloom. Every player accepts the history stitched into that garment. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

In his newspaper column on the morning of the 2023 All-Ireland final between Kerry and Dublin, Marc Ó Sé wrote about attending a pre-final forum in the Meadowlands hotel in Tralee the previous week, and the undercurrent of angst, and potential agony, laid bare before Kerry.

Ó Sé mentioned a sentence spoken at the event by his former team-mate, Dara O Cinnéide, which neatly encapsulated the trepidation ransacking Kerry minds in the lead up to that game.